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JetBlue adding flights to Savannah, Trinidad and Tobago

JetBlue announced two new destinations to its route map Monday, saying it would add service to Savannah, Ga., and the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. JetBlue's Savannah service will start Feb. 13,

JetBlue's Savannah service will start Feb. 13, with two daily round-trip flights to its hub at New York JFK on 100-seat Embraer E190 jets. The carrier says Savannah customers will be able to connect to other JetBlue destinations, including Albuquerque, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

JetBlue's service to Trinidad and Tobago will begin Feb. 24. The carrier plans to fly one daily round-trip flight between New York JFK and Port of Spain -- Trinidad and Tobago's capital city. JetBlue will add a second route to Port of Spain on May 1, when it begins a daily round-trip flight to Fort Lauderdale.

Pending regulatory approval, JetBlue will use 150-seat Airbus A320 jets for its Trinidad and Tobago flights. JetBlue will be the first big U.S. low-cost carrier to fly to the southern Caribbean nation, located just off the coast of Venezuela.

"We look forward to bringing lower fares and award-winning customer service to these routes. The largest population of Trinidadians in the U.S. live in New York and Florida," Scott Laurence, JetBlue's VP of network planning, says in a statement. "Our new service will provide customers with an inexpensive option for travel to Port of Spain, whether traveling for vacation or to visit friends and family,"

With the service to Port of Spain – which will become the airline's 84th destination – JetBlue says Latin American and the Caribbean will now make up about one-third of its route network. JetBlue adds it is "the largest carrier in terms of capacity in both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, offering more flights than any other carrier."

Also part of JetBlue's expansion plans is Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with JetBlue service scheduled to begin this winter (pending government approval.) JetBlue says it currently flies to 13 countries outside the United States, including Aruba, Barbados and The Bahamas.